Bob Boudelang on Reagan

[MrBenchley]

A shameless vanity post....and the best line itn it this week was cribbed verbatim from an idiotic ditto-monkey on Delphi:

"At last the white males who built this nation and died for its freedom get to have a hero in Ronald W. Reagan..."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/bob/04/104.html

[Fenris]

1. Do you write those? n/t

[MrBenchley]

2. Guilty as charged....

It's a natural reaction to hearing similar stupidity used seriously by right wing ditto-monkeys.

[Fenris]

6. You capture their complete lunacy quite brilliantly.

Good on ya! :toast:

[MrBenchley]

10. It really is sort of scary how nuts they are...

Take the Reagan coverage...which kept skipping over pretty much all of Reagan's REAL record and inventing feats of derring-do for the old fraud that did not exist.

[Fenris]

11. Hannity actually said that no one ever proved...

That Reagan gave the thumbs up to sell weapons to the Iranians and fund the Contra rebels, and that it was left-wing fantasy.

Which, I suppose, is why 138 people in his administration were forced to quit to avoid prosecution or indicted.

[MrBenchley]

17. Isn't that something...

So in that case, arms were sold to the Iranians (and even worse folks) and the contras were funded out of the White House, and this senile old fraud was utterly clueless? Or ignored by his own people?

Yeah, there's the mark of a great leader, all right.

[MisterP]

29. and his 1993 confession thereto

after prosecution timed out and his Alzheimers generated sympathy

[slackdude]

15. You rock!

I tangle with people who are just like Bob every day on the yahoo news message boards and you have them down to a T. I just linked to you on my blog (www.jasonbuckley.com/blog). Sometime for an experiment, I'm going to post one of your articles and see if any of the goons take it for face value and cheer it.

[MrBenchley]

18. The Free Republic

actually had one up about a year ago, with the freepers praising Bob's acutity and intelligence....until somebody tumbled and they knocked down the thread.

I've also had libertarians take some of what Bob "said" seriously.

LOVE the 70s recipes...priceless!

[slackdude]

22. Thanks!

I'm glad you like the recipes. I only have 2 more to post and the last one will be the very best.

[MrBenchley]

24. When I was a child

Perry Como's show used to be sponsored by Kraft...and would always have a commercial with a recipe that seemed to involve Miracle Whip, miniature marshmallows and velveeta.....

[slackdude]

26. YIKES!!!!

"a recipe that seemed to involve Miracle Whip, miniature marshmallows and velveeta"

Just add gasoline and it's napalm!

[MrBenchley]

27. SCTV did a parody of those commercials

that actually is sort of stomach-turning, but hilarious...

[name not needed]

3. Whoa!

You posted something outside of the gungeon! Now I'm scared.:scared:

:7

[MrBenchley]

9. Not only that...

But outside of the gungeon I actually run into DUers who don't pimp for Republican programs, don't post crap seriously from right wing cesspools, and actually have a progressive opinion.

It's pretty fucking amazing, isn't it?

[arwalden]

4. Excellent Work Mr. Benchley...

The 50-letters line just cracked me up.

And... are those Reagan quotes for real?

-- Allen

[MrBenchley]

7. Thanks...

Yes, all of those Reagan quotes are for real...and let it be remembered that he said "I don't recall" or some variant of it MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TIMES during the Iran Contra hearings.

I have a great book somewhere that was published during the reign of St. Ronnie called "There he goes again" that listed many of the dirt-ignorant, dishonest or mean-spirited things he uttered on an almost daily basis.

[Paradise]

5. My Favorite!

"Homely Secretary of Security Tom Ridge... :bounce:

[MrBenchley]

8. The Wheel O'Terror is REAL

and that's what's his name, the second ranking guy in the Ridge boondoggle, holding it up during a congressional hearing a couple weeks ago.

[cosmicdot]

12. well ..........

that's one word that will forever reverberate in my mind ... Ronnie prefacing a comment with ... "well" ... 8 years of bloody 'well' ...

despite that RR pet peeve ... may I say:

Well Done!!

"...move to Communist Canada if you disagree."

[MrBenchley]

19. Thanks!!

I'm inordinately proud of the Boraxo joke (for those not old enough to remember, Boraxo, which Reagan used to plug on Death Valley Days, was hand soap and not a headache remedy.)

[cosmicdot]

25. I'm old enough to remember

FDR had the New Deal
Truman the Fair Deal
JFK the New Frontier
LBJ the Great Society
Ronald Reagan's was Death Valley Days

[MrBenchley]

28. So true...

Reagan always used to invoke Westerns...but the character in a western he always reminded me of was the corrupt rancher who had his men beat up Audie Murphy and try to run him out of town....

[Dan-W]

31. Death Valley Days. Brought to you by....

20 Mule Team Borax.

*I'm old*

[GOPisEvil]

13. Excellent! Possibly the finest yet!

:thumbsup:

[MrBenchley]

20. Thank you!

[AlGore-08.com]

14. Bob's rants are always great - - here's a couple photos you could use

In a later article, since I know Bob would tape them up on his locker, if he still had one.




(The guy in the passenger seat is Iraqi interim President Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawer)

[MrBenchley]

21. A confession...

I SAW the top one but thought it was somebody horsing around on Photoshop! I shoulda known better.

[terrya]

16. This "Gayo-American" thanks you, Mr. Benchley. And a question.

Excellent. And yes, the quotes are real. I think another real quote was "Once you've seen one tree, you've seen them all".

Where did you get the picture of Bob Boudelang? It's perfect...though it kind of looks like the actor who played Uncle Leo on "Seinfeld". :-)

Terry

[MrBenchley]

23. Thank YOU!

Reagan also said, "Look, ask me what paper came to my desk last week and I couldn't tell you" and "You can't help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice."

You might enjoy THIS (not mine, but a wonderful public service):

http://www.quickchange.com/reagan/

Skinner and his magic elves came up with Bob's picture....don't know where they found it....It does look like Uncle Leo, now that I think of it.

[Darth_Kitten]

30. beauty!!!

:evilgrin: